MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
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GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.24 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.53 TFLOPS.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA has 1920 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.71 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 6.56 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 32 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 15 execution units.

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G has a turbo clock of 1.244 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA is 1.708 GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G is 39 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 1 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA is 39 mm and thus requires the space of 1 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G was released in Q4/2017.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.